Virginia Borges, MD

Professor, Medicine-Medical Oncology


FacultyPhoto
Medical School
  • MD, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School (1993)
Graduate School
  • MMedSci, Harvard University And Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (2001)
Undergraduate School
  • BA, Drew University (NJ) (1989)
Internship
  • Deaconess Hospital Program (1994)
Residency
  • Deaconess Hospital Program, Internal Medicine (1996)
Fellowships
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Program, Medical Oncology (1999)
Languages
English
Department
Medicine-Medical Oncology

Research Interests

Novel treatment for breast cancer, particulary immunotherapy. Young women's breast cancer and pregnancy-associated breast cancer. Immunobiology of breast cancer

Publications

  • Vasir B, Borges V, Wu Z, Grosman D, Rosenblatt J, Irie M, Anderson K, Kufe D, and Avigan D. Fusion of Dendritic Cells with Multiple Myeloma Cells Results in Maturation and Enhanced Antigen Presentation, British Journal of Hematology 2005: June: 129(5):687-700
  • Urquhart A, Borges V, Rabinovitch R, Singh M, Robinson W, Seligman P, Arya J, Finlayson C,Elias A. A Postmenopausal Woman with Early Stage Breast Cancer and Borderline Hormone Receptor Staining. Oncology 2005: March:19(3)278,283-4, 287
  • Taylor CW and Borges VF. Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Risk Assessment and Management. University of Arizona College of Medicine and the University of Arizona Cancer Center. Web-based on-line CME education tool; March 2005: Editor.
  • Come S and Borges V. Role of fulvestrant in sequential hormonal therapy for advanced, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer in postmenopausal women. Clin Breast Cancer. 2005 Apr;6 Suppl 1:S15-22. Review
  • Jaconsen B, Harrell JC, Jedlicka P, Borges V, Varella-Garcia M, Horwitz KB, Spontaneous fusion with, and transformation of mouse stroma by, malignant human breast cancer epithelium, Cancer Research 2006 August: 66(16): 8274-8279
  • Menter A, Urquhart A, Borges VF, Rabinovitch R, Singh M, Robinson W, Seligman P, Finlayson C, Elias A. Second Opinion: A Woman with Primary Breast Cancer and a Solitary Sternal Metastasis. Oncology 2006 20(9) 1068-1080
  • Microenvironment of the Involuting Mammary Gland Mediates Mammary Cancer Progression. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia. 2007 Feb 21; [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 17318269 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
  • Borges VF and Taylor CW. Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Risk Assessment and Management. University of Arizona College of Medicine and the University of Arizona Cancer Center. Web-based on-line CME education tool; March 2005: Editor. Updated 2006
  • 21. Jordan KR, Amaria RN, Ramirez O, Callihan EB, Gao D, Borakove M, Manthey E, Borges VF, McCarter MD. Myeloid-derived suppressor cells are associated with disease progression and decreased overall survival in advanced-stage melanoma patients. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2013 Sep 27. [Epub ahead of print] PMID:24072401
  • 1. Callihan EB, Gao D, Jindal S, Lyons TR, Manthey E, Edgerton S, Urquhart A, Schedin P, Borges VF. Postpartum diagnosis demonstrates a high risk for metastasis and merits an expanded definition of pregnancy-associated breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 2013 Apr;138(2):549-59. Epub Feb 22. PMID:23430224
  • 19. Rosenberg SM, Tamimi RM, Gelber S, Ruddy KJ, Kereakoglow S, Borges VF, Come SE, Schapira L, Winer EP, Partridge AH. Body image in recently diagnosed young women with early breast cancer. Psychooncology. 2013 Aug;22(8):1849-55. doi: 10.1002/pon.3221. Epub 2012 Nov 7. PMID: 23132765
  • 20. Harvell DM, Kim J, O'Brien J, Tan AC, Borges VF, Schedin P, Jacobsen BM, Horwitz KB. Genomic Signatures of Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer Epithelia and Stroma and their Regulation by Estrogens and Progesterone. Horm Cancer. 2013 Jun;4(3):140-53. doi: 10.1007/s12672-013-0136-z. Epub 2013 Mar 12 PMID:23479404
  • Pegram MD, Borges V, Fuloria J, Ibrahim N, Shapiro C, Perez ES, Wang K, Schaedeli-Stark F, Yeon C, Courtney-Luck N, Phase I pharmacokinetics of humanized anti-MUC1 antibody R1550 ASCO 2006 #
  • 17. Jambal P, Badtke MM, Harrell JC, Borges VF, Post MD, Sollender GE, Spillman MA, Horwitz KB, Jacobsen BM. Estrogen switches pure mucinous breast cancer to invasive lobular carcinoma with mucinous features. Breast Cancer Res Treat Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2013 Jan;137(2):431-48. doi: 10.1007/s10549-012-2377-x. Epub 2012 Dec 18. PMID: 23247610
  • 17. Bruno TC, French JD, Jordan KR, Ramirez O, Sippel TR, Borges VF, Haugen BR, McCarter MD, Waziri A, Slansky JE. Influence of human immune cells on cancer: studies at the University of Colorado. Immunol Res. 2013 Mar;55(1-3):22-33. doi: 10.1007/s12026-012-8346-y. PMID: 22941561
  • A. Schwer, V. Borges, M. Ding, B. D. Kavanagh, The Norton-Simon Hypothesis Applied to Murine and Human Tumor Growth: Implications for Patient Selection in Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) ASTRO 2006, Abstract # 2698
  • 18. Martinson H, Lyons TS, Giles ED, Borges VF, Schedin P. Developmental windows of breast cancer risk provide opportunities for targeted chemoprevention. Experimental Cell Research 2013 July 319, Issue 11:1 1671–1678 doi: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2013.04.018. PMID: 23664839
  • Borges V and Hardesty L, "Cost Effective Staging for Breast Cancer" in Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, Elsevier Press
  • Munson S, Parker J, King T, Lu Y, Kelley V, Guo Z, Borges V, and Franzusoff A. Coupling Innate and Adaptive Immunity with Yeast-based Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Vaccines and Tumor Immunity, 1. Edition - March 2008. ISBN-10: 0-470-07474-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-470-07474-9 - John Wiley & Sons
  • 33. Julie R Palmer, Emma Viscidi, Melissa A Troester, Chi-Chen Hong, Pepper Schedin, Traci N Bethea, Elisa V Bandera, Virginia Borges, Craig McKinnon, Christopher A Haiman, Kathryn Lunetta, Laurence N Kolonel, Lynn Rosenberg, Andrew F Olshan, Christine B Ambrosone: Parity, Lactation, and Breast Cancer Subtypes in African American Women: Results from the AMBER Consortium.. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 2014 Sep 15;106(10). pii: dju237. doi: 10.1093/jnci/dju237. Print 2014 Oct. PMID: 25224496
  • Holly A. Martinson, Sonali Jindal, Clarissa Durand-Rougely, Virginia F. Borges, Pepper Schedin: Wound healing-like immune program facilitates postpartum mammary gland involution and tumor progression. International Journal of Cancer 2014 Sep 4. doi: 10.1002/ijc.29181. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 25187059
  • Munson S, Parker J, King T, Lu Y, Kelley V, Guo Z, Borges V, and Franzusoff A. Coupling Innate and Adaptive Immunity with Yeast-based Cancer Immunotherapy. Cancer Vaccines and Tumor Immunity, 1. Edition - March 2008. ISBN-10: 0-470-07474-4, ISBN-13: 978-0-470-07474-9 - John Wiley & Sons
  • Traci R Lyons, Virginia F Borges, Courtney B Betts, Qiuchen Guo, Puja Kapoor, Holly A Martinson, Sonali Jindal, Pepper Schedin: Cyclooxygenase-2-dependent lymphangiogenesis promotes nodal metastasis of postpartum breast cancer.. The Journal of clinical investigation. 2014 Sep 2;124(9):3901-12. doi: 10.1172/JCI73777. Epub 2014 Aug 18.PMID: 25133426
  • Shoshana M Rosenberg, Rulla M Tamimi, Shari Gelber, Kathryn J Ruddy, Sharon L Bober, Sandra Kereakoglow, Virginia F Borges, Steven E Come, Lidia Schapira, Ann H Partridge: Treatment-related amenorrhea and sexual functioning in young breast cancer survivors.. Cancer 2014 Aug 1;120(15):2264-71. doi: 10.1002/cncr.28738. Epub 2014 May 28
  • Jaime Fornetti, Holly A Martinson, Courtney B Betts, Traci R Lyons, Sonali Jindal, Qiuchen Guo, Lisa M Coussens, Virginia F Borges, Pepper Schedin: Mammary Gland Involution as an Immunotherapeutic Target for Postpartum Breast Cancer. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia 06/2014
  • Sonali Jindal, Dexiang Gao, Pat Bell, Grethe Albrektsen, Susan M Edgerton, Christine B Ambrosone, Ann D Thor, Virginia F Borges, Pepper Schedin: Postpartum breast involution reveals regression of secretory lobules mediated by tissue-remodeling.. Breast cancer research 2014 Mar 28;16(2):R31. doi: 10.1186/bcr3633.PMID: 24678808
  • Julie A Carlson, Zohra Nooruddin, Chad Rusthoven, Anthony Elias, Virginia F Borges, Jennifer R Diamond, Brian Kavanagh, Peter Kabos: Trastuzumab emtansine and stereotactic radiosurgery: an unexpected increase in clinically significant brain edema.. Neuro-Oncology 02/2014
  • Harvell, DE, Spoelstra N, Singh M, McManaman J, Finlayson C, Phang T, Trapp S, Hunter L, Dye W, Borges VF, Elias AD, Horwitz K. Molecular signatures of neoadjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer: characteristics of response or intrinsic resistance. Accepted to Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
  • Kathryn J Ruddy, Shari I Gelber, Rulla M Tamimi, Elizabeth S Ginsburg, Lidia Schapira, Steven E Come, Virginia F Borges, Meghan E Meyer, Ann H Partridge: Prospective Study of Fertility Concerns and Preservation Strategies in Young Women With Breast Cancer.. Journal of Clinical Oncology 2014 Apr 10;32(11):1151-6. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2013.52.8877. Epub 2014 Feb 24.PMID: 24567428
  • Fisher CM, Klein CE, Kondapalli LA, Elias AD, Borges VF. Management of young breast cancer patients with de novo genetic mutations. Oncology (Williston Park). 2014 Oct;28(10). pii: 201947. PMID: 25323616
  • Borges VF. Management of the Patient with Post-partum Breast Cancer. Oncology 2014 Sept; 28(9) http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/issue/vol-28-no-9
  • Kabos P and Borges VF. "Surveillence and Detection for the Recurrence of Breast Cancer" in Early Diagnosis of Breast Cancer, Elesevier Press
  • Amaria R, Corboy J, Finlayson C, Robinson W, Borges V. Immunomodulatory therapy in Multiple Sclerosis and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case Report and Literature Review. Clin Breast Can. Vol 8, No 5, Oct 2008
  • 9. Pories S, Zurakowski D, Roy R, Lamb C, Raza R, Exarhopoulos A, Scheib R, Schumer S, Lenahan C, Borges V, Louis A, Anand A, Isakovich N, Hirshfield-Bartek J, Wewer U, Lotz MM, Moses MA. Urinary Metalloproteinases: Noninvasive Biomarkers for Breast Cancer Risk Assessment. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2008;17(5).
  • Sartorius CA, Hanna CT, Gril B, Cruz H, Serkova NJ, Huber KM, Kabos P, Schedin TB, Borges VF, Steeg PS, Cittelly DM. Estrogen promotes the brain metastatic colonization of triple negative breast cancer cells via an astrocyte-mediated paracrine mechanism. Oncogene. 2015 Sep 28. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26411365
  • Diamond J, Finlayson C, Borges V. Hepatic complications of breast cancer. Lancet Oncology, accepted 1/2009, print pending
  • Breaking down barriers: the importance of the stromal microenvironment in acquiring invasiveness in young women's breast cancer. Pepper Schedin and Virginia Borges, Breast Cancer Research, in press
  • Pegram MD, Borges V, Ibrahim N, Fuloria J, Shapiro C, Perez S, Wang K, Schaedeli Stark F, Courtenay Luck N. Phase I dose escalation pharmacokinetic assessment of intravenous humanized anti-MUC1 antibody AS1402 in patients with advanced breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2009 Oct 7;11(5):R73. PMID: 19811637
  • Diamond JR, Finlayson CA, Thienelt C, Kabos P, Hardesty L, Barbour L, Klein CE, Rabinovitch R, Elias A, Borges VF, Early-Stage BRCA2-Linked Breast Cancer Diagnosed in the First Trimester of Pregnancy Associated With a Hypercoagulable State ONCOLOGY, 2009;23(9)
  • Jasem J, Altoos B, Fisher CM, Elias AD, Kounalakis N, Borges VF, Kabos P. Multiple Hepatic Lesions in a Patient With a History of DCIS. Oncology (Williston Park). 2015 Sep;29(9):669-70, 678-9. PubMed PMID: 26384804
  • Nunes RA, Li X, Kang SP, Burstein H, Roberts L, Carney W, Blackwell K, Ryan P, Borges V, Iglehart JD, Friedman P, Harris LN., Circulating tumor cells in HER-2 positive metastatic breast cancer patients treated with trastuzumab and chemotherapy. Int J Biol Markers. 2009 Jan-Mar;24(1):1-10.
  • Lyons T, Schedin PJ, and Borges VF, Pregnancy and Breast Cancer: when they collide. Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia. 2009 Jun;14(2):87-98. Epub 2009 Apr 21
  • Jenean O’Brien, Traci Lyons, Jenifer Monks,M. Scott Lucia, R. Storey Wilson, Lisa Hines,Yan-gao Man, Virginia Borges,and Pepper Schedin. Alternatively Activated Macrophages and Collagen Remodeling Characterize the Postpartum Involuting Mammary Gland across Species, The American Journal of Pathology, Vol. 176, No. 3, March 2010
  • Russell TD, Jindal S, Agunbiade S, Gao D, Troxell M, Borges VF, Schedin P. Myoepithelial cell differentiation markers in ductal carcinoma in situ progression. Am J Pathol. 2015 Nov;185(11):3076-89. PubMed PMID: 26343330
  • Fornetti J, Flanders KC, Henson PM, Tan AC, Borges VF, Schedin P. Mammary epithelial cell phagocytosis downstream of TGF-ß3 is characterized by adherens junction reorganization. Cell Death Differ. 2016 Feb;23(2):185-96. PubMed PMID: 26113040
  • Kabos, P and Borges, V. Fulvestrant: a unique anti-endocrine agent for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer. Expert Opinion in Pharmacotherapy, Accepted Jan 2010
  • Collins LC, Gelber S, Marotti JD, White S, Ruddy K, Brachtel EF, Schapira L, Come SE, Borges VF, Schedin P, Warner E, Wensley T, Tamimi RM, Winer EP, Partridge AH. Molecular Phenotype of Breast Cancer According to Time Since Last Pregnancy in a Large Cohort of Young Women. Oncologist. 2015 Jul;20(7):713-8. PubMed PMID: 26025931
  • Hirsch FR, Mok TS, Borges V, Bunn PA, Molecularly targeted therapy: when to stop and when to continue? The Lancet Oncology 2010 Aug;11(8): 709-711. doi:10.1016/S1470-2045(10)70128-5
  • Rosenberg SM, Sepucha K, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Gelber S, Meyer ME, Schapira L, Come SE, Borges VF, Golshan M, Winer EP, Partridge AH. Local Therapy Decision-Making and Contralateral Prophylactic Mastectomy in Young Women with Early-Stage Breast Cancer. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Nov;22(12):3809-15. PubMed PMID: 25930247
  • Kabos P and Borges VF. Fulvestrant; a unique antiendocrine agent for estrogen-sensitive breast cancer. Expert Opin Pharm April 2010; 11(5):807-816.
  • Kabos P and Borges VF. Surveillance and Detection for the Recurrence of Breast Cancer. Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: Breast Cancer, 1st Edition, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4160-4932-6, Saunders Elsevier
  • Borges V and Hardesty L. Cost Effective Staging for Breast Cancer. Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer: Breast Cancer, 1st Edition, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4160-4932-6, Saunders Elsevier
  • Lyons T*, O’Brien J*, Monks J, Lucia MS, Wilson RS, Hines L, Man YM, Borges V, and Schedin PJ. “Alternatively activated macrophages and collagen remodeling characterize the post-partum involuting mammary gland across species.” Am J Pathol. 2010 Mar;176(3):1241-55. Epub 2010 Jan 28 *these authors contributed equally
  • Lyons TR, O’Brien J, Borges VF, Keely PJ, Conklin MW, Eliceiri KW, Marusyk A, Tan AC, and Schedin PJ. Postpartum mammary gland involution drives DCIS progression through collagen and COX-2, Nature Medicine, 2011 Sep 17(9):1109.
  • Jindal S, Borges VF. The Emerging role of Cytokines in Breast Cancer: From Initiation to Survivorship. Current Medical Literature, Vol 23, No 4, 2011
  • Martinson HA, Jindal S, Durand-Rougely C, Borges VF, Schedin P. Wound healing-like immune program facilitates postpartum mammary gland involution and tumor progression. Int J Cancer. 2015 Apr 15;136(8):1803-13. PubMed PMID: 25187059
  • Overholser L, Shagisultanova E, Rabinovitch RA, Kounalakis N, Diamond J, Finlayson CA, Fisher CM, Kabos P, Elias AD, Borges VF, Mayordomo J. Breast Cancer Following Radiation for Hodgkin Lymphoma: Clinical Scenarios and Risk-Reducing Strategies. Oncology (Williston Park). 2016 Dec 15;30(12). PubMed PMID: 27987198
  • Borges VF, Schedin P, Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer: An Entity Needing Refinement of the Definition. Cancer, 2011, DOI 10.1002/cncr 266643
  • Borges V and Elias A. The Era of High-Dose Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer: Revisiting a Troubled Quest. The Journal of Clinical Oncology 2011 Aug 21; 29 (24): 3205-3206.
  • Kounalakis, N, Diamond J, Rusthoven K, Horn W, Jindal S, Wisell J, Klein CE, Elias A, Finlastono C, Borges V. Diagnosis of Invasive Lobular Carcinoma in a Young Woman Presenting with Pleomorphic Lobular Carcinoma in situ on Core Biopsy. Oncology April 2011, Vol 25(4).
  • Borges VF, Schedin, P. Could NSAIDS become a preventative therapy in pregnancy-associated breast cancer?. Breast Cancer Management (2012) 1,1;30-46. ISSN 1758-1923.
  • Goddard ET, Hill RC, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Hansen KC, Maller O, Mongoue-Tchokote S, Mori M, Partridge AH, Borges VF, Schedin P. The Rodent Liver Undergoes Weaning-Induced Involution and Supports Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cancer Discov. 2017 Feb;7(2):177-187. PubMed PMID: 27974414
  • Callihan EB, Gao D, Jindal S, et.al. Postpartum diagnosis demonstrates a high risk for metastasis and merits an expanded definition of pregnancy-associated breast cancer. Breast Cancer REsearch and Treatment. 2013 Feb 22 PMID: 2340224
  • Borges VF, Elder AM, Lyons TR. Deciphering Pro-Lymphangiogenic Programs during Mammary Involution and Postpartum Breast Cancer. Front Oncol. 2016 Nov 2;6:227. PubMed PMID: 27853703
  • Rosenberg SM, Tamimi RM, Gelber, S, et al. Body Image in recently diagnosed young women with early breast cancer, Psychooncology. 2012 Nov 7
  • Jambal P, BAdtke MM, Harell JC, et. al. Estrogen switches pure mucinous breast cancer to invasive lobular carcinoma with mucinous features. Breast Cancer Res Treat, 2012, December 19
  • Goddard ET, Hill RC, Barrett A, Betts C, Guo Q, Maller O, Borges VF, Hansen KC, Schedin P. Quantitative extracellular matrix proteomics to study mammary and liver tissue microenvironments. Int J Biochem Cell Biol. 2016 Dec;81(Pt A):223-232. PubMed PMID: 27771439
  • Pregnancy-associated breast cancer: an entity needing refinement of the definition. Borges VF, Schedin PJ.Cancer. 2012 Jul 1;118(13):3226-8. doi: 10.1002/cncr.26643. Epub 2011 Nov 15. PMID:22086839[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
  • Brown RJ, Murphy CD, Lisella GH, Libby AL, Njiaju UO, Rabinovitch RA, Borges VF. A 40-Year-Old Woman With a New Triple-Negative Breast Mass, Shown on Biopsy to Be Metaplastic Carcinoma. Oncology (Williston Park). 2016 Jul;30(7):628-31, 652. PubMed PMID: 27432366
  • Influence of human immune cells on cancer: studies at the University of Colorado. Bruno TC, French JD, Jordan KR, Ramirez O, Sippel TR, Borges VF, Haugen BR, McCarter MD, Waziri A, Slansky JE.Immunol Res. 2013 Mar;55(1-3):22-33. doi: 10.1007/s12026-012-8346-yPMID:22941561
  • Munson DJ, Egelston CA, Chiotti KE, Parra ZE, Bruno TC, Moore BL, Nakano TA, Simons DL, Jimenez G, Yim JH, Rozanov DV, Falta MT, Fontenot AP, Reynolds PR, Leach SM, Borges VF, Kappler JW, Spellman PT, Lee PP, Slansky JE. Identification of shared TCR sequences from T cells in human breast cancer using emulsion RT-PCR. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Jul 19;113(29):8272-7. PubMed PMID: 27307436
  • Jasem J, Amini A, Rabinovitch R, Borges VF, Elias A, Fisher CM, Kabos P. 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay As a Predictor of Adjuvant Chemotherapy Administration for Early-Stage Breast Cancer: An Analysis of Use, Therapeutic Implications, and Disparity Profile. J Clin Oncol. 2016 Jun 10;34(17):1995-2002. PubMed PMID: 27001563
  • Rosenberg SM, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Gelber S, Schapira L, Come S, Borges VF, Larsen B, Garber JE, Partridge AH. BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Testing in Young Women With Breast Cancer. JAMA Oncol. 2016 Jun 1;2(6):730-6. PubMed PMID: 26867710
  • Sartorius CA, Hanna CT, Gril B, Cruz H, Serkova NJ, Huber KM, Kabos P, Schedin TB, Borges VF, Steeg PS, Cittelly DM. Estrogen promotes the brain metastatic colonization of triple negative breast cancer cells via an astrocyte-mediated paracrine mechanism. Oncogene. 2016 Jun 2;35(22):2881-92. PubMed PMID: 26411365
  • Fornetti J, Flanders KC, Henson PM, Tan AC, Borges VF, Schedin P. Mammary epithelial cell phagocytosis downstream of TGF-ß3 is characterized by adherens junction reorganization. Cell Death Differ. 2016 Feb;23(2):185-96. PubMed PMID: 26113040
  • Coccia PF, Pappo AS, Beaupin L, Borges VF, Borinstein SC, Chugh R, Dinner S, Folbrecht J, Frazier AL, Goldsby R, Gubin A, Hayashi R, Huang MS, Link MP, Livingston JA, Matloub Y, Millard F, Oeffinger KC, Puccetti D, Reed D, Robinson S, Rosenberg AR, Sanft T, Spraker-Perlman HL, von Mehren M, Wechsler DS, Whelan KF, Yeager N, Gurski LA, Shead DA. Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology, Version 2.2018, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2018 Jan;16(1):66-97. PubMed PMID: 29295883
  • Goddard ET, Bassale S, Schedin T, Jindal S, Johnston J, Cabral E, Latour E, Lyons TR, Mori M, Schedin PJ, Borges VF. Association Between Postpartum Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Metastasis and the Clinical Features Underlying Risk. JAMA Netw Open. 2019 Jan 4;2(1):e186997. PubMed PMID: 30646210
  • Contreras-Zárate MJ, Ormond DR, Gillen AE, Hanna C, Day NL, Serkova NJ, Jacobsen BM, Edgerton SM, Thor AD, Borges VF, Lillehei KO, Graner MW, Kabos P, Cittelly DM. Development of Novel Patient-Derived Xenografts from Breast Cancer Brain Metastases. Front Oncol. 2017;7:252. PubMed PMID: 29164052
  • Harris EER, De Los Santos J, Borges VF, Grobmyer SR. Innovations in Personalized and Targeted Therapies for Breast Cancer. Int J Breast Cancer. 2018;2018:5409846. PubMed PMID: 30538865
  • Pennock ND, Martinson HA, Guo Q, Betts CB, Jindal S, Tsujikawa T, Coussens LM, Borges VF, Schedin P. Ibuprofen supports macrophage differentiation, T cell recruitment, and tumor suppression in a model of postpartum breast cancer. J Immunother Cancer. 2018 Oct 1;6(1):98. PubMed PMID: 30285905
  • Elder AM, Tamburini BAJ, Crump LS, Black SA, Wessells VM, Schedin PJ, Borges VF, Lyons TR. Semaphorin 7A Promotes Macrophage-Mediated Lymphatic Remodeling during Postpartum Mammary Gland Involution and in Breast Cancer. Cancer Res. 2018 Nov 15;78(22):6473-6485. PubMed PMID: 30254150
  • Chollet-Hinton L, Olshan AF, Nichols HB, Anders CK, Lund JL, Allott EH, Bethea TN, Hong CC, Cohen SM, Khoury T, Zirpoli GR, Borges VF, Rosenberg LA, Bandera EV, Ambrosone CB, Palmer JR, Troester MA. Biology and Etiology of Young-Onset Breast Cancers among Premenopausal African American Women: Results from the AMBER Consortium. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Dec;26(12):1722-1729. PubMed PMID: 28903991
  • Brown RJ, Sams S, Wolverton DE, Chong T, Borges VF, Rabinovitch RA, Murphy CD. Don't Be Fooled by DCIS. Oncology (Williston Park). 2017 Jul 15;31(7):549-51, 560-1. PubMed PMID: 28712099
  • Jasem J, Fisher CM, Amini A, Shagisultanova E, Rabinovitch R, Borges VF, Elias A, Kabos P. The 21-Gene Recurrence Score Assay for Node-Positive, Early-Stage Breast Cancer and Impact of RxPONDER Trial on Chemotherapy Decision-Making: Have Clinicians Already Decided?. J Natl Compr Canc Netw. 2017 Apr;15(4):494-503. PubMed PMID: 28404760
  • Greene LI, Bruno TC, Christenson JL, D'Alessandro A, Culp-Hill R, Torkko K, Borges VF, Slansky JE, Richer JK. A Role for Tryptophan-2,3-dioxygenase in CD8 T-cell Suppression and Evidence of Tryptophan Catabolism in Breast Cancer Patient Plasma. Mol Cancer Res. 2019 Jan;17(1):131-139. PubMed PMID: 30143553
  • Jordan KR, Kapoor P, Spongberg E, Tobin RP, Gao D, Borges VF, McCarter MD. Immunosuppressive myeloid-derived suppressor cells are increased in splenocytes from cancer patients. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2017 Apr;66(4):503-513. PubMed PMID: 28108766
  • Tobin RP, Jordan KR, Robinson WA, Davis D, Borges VF, Gonzalez R, Lewis KD, McCarter MD. Targeting myeloid-derived suppressor cells using all-trans retinoic acid in melanoma patients treated with Ipilimumab. Int Immunopharmacol. 2018 Oct;63:282-291. PubMed PMID: 30121453
  • Moulder SL, Borges VF, Baetz T, Mcspadden T, Fernetich G, Murthy RK, Chavira R, Guthrie K, Barrett E, Chia SK. Phase I Study of ONT-380, a HER2 Inhibitor, in Patients with HER2( )-Advanced Solid Tumors, with an Expansion Cohort in HER2( ) Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC). Clin Cancer Res. 2017 Jul 15;23(14):3529-3536. PubMed PMID: 28053022
  • Diamond JR, Eckhardt SG, Pitts TM, van Bokhoven A, Aisner D, Gustafson DL, Capasso A, Sams S, Kabos P, Zolman K, Colvin T, Elias AD, Storniolo AM, Schneider BP, Gao D, Tentler JJ, Borges VF, Miller KD. A phase II clinical trial of the Aurora and angiogenic kinase inhibitor ENMD-2076 for previously treated, advanced, or metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res. 2018 Aug 2;20(1):82. PubMed PMID: 30071865
  • Schedin TB, Borges VF, Shagisultanova E. Overcoming Therapeutic Resistance of Triple Positive Breast Cancer with CDK4/6 Inhibition. Int J Breast Cancer. 2018;2018:7835095. PubMed PMID: 30018827
  • Borges VF, Ferrario C, Aucoin N, Falkson C, Khan Q, Krop I, Welch S, Conlin A, Chaves J, Bedard PL, Chamberlain M, Gray T, Vo A, Hamilton E. Tucatinib Combined With Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine in Advanced ERBB2/HER2-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Phase 1b Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2018 Sep 1;4(9):1214-1220. PubMed PMID: 29955792
  • Goddard ET, Hill RC, Nemkov T, D'Alessandro A, Hansen KC, Maller O, Mongoue-Tchokote S, Mori M, Partridge AH, Borges VF, Schedin P. The Rodent Liver Undergoes Weaning-Induced Involution and Supports Breast Cancer Metastasis. Cancer Discov. 2017 Feb;7(2):177-187. PubMed PMID: 27974414
  • Stoen E, Kabos P, Borden KC, Brown RJ, Borges VF, Diamond JR. A 35-Year-Old Woman With a Change in HER2 Expression Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Invasive Breast Cancer. Oncology (Williston Park). 2018 Jun;32(6):298-302. PubMed PMID: 29940061
  • Betts CB, Pennock ND, Caruso BP, Ruffell B, Borges VF, Schedin P. Mucosal Immunity in the Female Murine Mammary Gland. J Immunol. 2018 Jul 15;201(2):734-746. PubMed PMID: 29884705
  • Murthy R, Borges VF, Conlin A, Chaves J, Chamberlain M, Gray T, Vo A, Hamilton E. Tucatinib with capecitabine and trastuzumab in advanced HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer with and without brain metastases: a non-randomised, open-label, phase 1b study. Lancet Oncol. 2018 Jul;19(7):880-888. PubMed PMID: 29804905
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  • Guo Q, Sun D, Barrett AS, Jindal S, Pennock ND, Conklin MW, Xia Z, Mitchell E, Samatham R, Mirza N, Jacques S, Weinmann S, Borges VF, Hansen KC, Schedin PJ. Mammary collagen is under reproductive control with implications for breast cancer. Matrix Biol. 2022 Jan;105:104-126. PubMed PMID: 34839002
  • Shagisultanova E, Crump LS, Borakove M, Hall JK, Rasti AR, Harrison BA, Kabos P, Lyons TR, Borges VF. Triple Targeting of Breast Tumors Driven by Hormonal Receptors and HER2. Mol Cancer Ther. 2022 Jan;21(1):48-57. PubMed PMID: 34728571
  • Guzmán-Arocho YD, Rosenberg SM, Garber JE, Vardeh H, Poorvu PD, Ruddy KJ, Kirkner G, Snow C, Tamimi RM, Peppercorn J, Schapira L, Borges VF, Come SE, Brachtel EF, Marotti JD, Warner E, Partridge AH, Collins LC. Clinicopathological features and BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation status in a prospective cohort of young women with breast cancer. Br J Cancer. 2022 Feb;126(2):302-309. PubMed PMID: 34703009
  • Schapira L, Zheng Y, Gelber SI, Poorvu P, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Peppercorn J, Come SE, Borges VF, Partridge AH, Rosenberg SM. Trajectories of fear of cancer recurrence in young breast cancer survivors. Cancer. 2022 Jan 15;128(2):335-343. PubMed PMID: 34614212
  • Kim HJ, Dominici L, Rosenberg SM, Zheng Y, Pak LM, Poorvu PD, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi R, Schapira L, Come SE, Peppercorn J, Borges VF, Warner E, Vardeh H, Collins LC, Gaither R, King TA, Partridge AH. Surgical Treatment After Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy in Young Women With Breast Cancer: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study. Ann Surg. 2022 Jul 1;276(1):173-179. PubMed PMID: 33378304
  • Christian NT, Borges VF. What Dobbs Means for Patients with Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2022 Sep 1;387(9):765-767. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2209249. Epub 2022 Aug 27. PubMed PMID: 36026608
  • 33. Borges VF. Options for Endocrine-Refractory, Hormone Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer: Which Target and When?. J Clin Oncol. 2021 Oct 28;:JCO2101910. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.01910. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34709849.
  • Shagisultanova E, Gradishar W, Brown-Glaberman U, Chalasani P, Brenner AJ, Stopeck A, Parris H, Gao D, McSpadden T, Mayordomo J, Diamond JR, Kabos P, Borges VF. Safety and Efficacy of Tucatinib, Letrozole, and Palbociclib in Patients with Previously Treated HR /HER2 Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2023 Dec 15;29(24):5021-5030. PubMed PMID: 37363965
  • Lipsyc-Sharf M, Jain E, Collins LC, Rosenberg SM, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Schapira L, Come SE, Peppercorn JM, Borges VF, Warner E, Snow C, Krop IE, Kim D, Weiss J, Zanudo JGT, Partridge AH, Wagle N, Waks AG. Genomics of ERBB2-Positive Breast Cancer in Young Women Before and After Exposure to Chemotherapy Plus Trastuzumab. JCO Precis Oncol. 2023 Jun;7:e2300076. PubMed PMID: 37364233
  • Elias AD, Spoelstra NS, Staley AW, Sams S, Crump LS, Vidal GA, Borges VF, Kabos P, Diamond JR, Shagisultanova E, Afghahi A, Mayordomo J, McSpadden T, Crawford G, D'Alessandro A, Zolman KL, van Bokhoven A, Zhuang Y, Gallagher RI, Wulfkuhle JD, Petricoin Iii EF, Gao D, Richer JK. Phase II trial of fulvestrant plus enzalutamide in ER /HER2- advanced breast cancer. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2023 May 20;9(1):41. PubMed PMID: 37210417
  • Partridge AH, Niman SM, Ruggeri M, Peccatori FA, Azim HA Jr, Colleoni M, Saura C, Shimizu C, Sætersdal AB, Kroep JR, Mailliez A, Warner E, Borges VF, Amant F, Gombos A, Kataoka A, Rousset-Jablonski C, Borstnar S, Takei J, Lee JE, Walshe JM, Ruíz-Borrego M, Moore HCF, Saunders C, Bjelic-Radisic V, Susnjar S, Cardoso F, Smith KL, Ferreiro T, Ribi K, Ruddy K, Kammler R, El-Abed S, Viale G, Piccart M, Korde LA, Goldhirsch A, Gelber RD, Pagani O. Interrupting Endocrine Therapy to Attempt Pregnancy after Breast Cancer. N Engl J Med. 2023 May 4;388(18):1645-1656. PubMed PMID: 37133584
  • Lewinsohn R, Zheng Y, Rosenberg SM, Ruddy KJ, Tamimi RM, Schapira L, Peppercorn J, Borges VF, Come S, Snow C, Ginsburg ES, Partridge AH. Fertility Preferences and Practices Among Young Women With Breast Cancer: Germline Genetic Carriers Versus Noncarriers. Clin Breast Cancer. 2023 Apr;23(3):317-323. PubMed PMID: 36628811
  • Purcell SA, Melanson EL, Afghahi A, Borges VF, Sinelli I, Cornier MA. The effects of resistance exercise on appetite sensations, appetite related hormones and energy intake in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer survivors. Appetite. 2023 Mar 1;182:106426. PubMed PMID: 36539160
  • Rosenberg SM, Zheng Y, Gelber S, Ruddy KJ, Poorvu P, Sella T, Tamimi RM, Wassermann J, Schapira L, Borges VF, Come S, Peppercorn J, Sepucha KR, Partridge AH. Adjuvant endocrine therapy non-initiation and non-persistence in young women with early-stage breast cancer. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2023 Feb;197(3):547-558. PubMed PMID: 36436128
  • Lin NU, Murthy RK, Abramson V, Anders C, Bachelot T, Bedard PL, Borges V, Cameron D, Carey LA, Chien AJ, Curigliano G, DiGiovanna MP, Gelmon K, Hortobagyi G, Hurvitz SA, Krop I, Loi S, Loibl S, Mueller V, Oliveira M, Paplomata E, Pegram M, Slamon D, Zelnak A, Ramos J, Feng W, Winer E. Tucatinib vs Placebo, Both in Combination With Trastuzumab and Capecitabine, for Previously Treated ERBB2 (HER2)-Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer in Patients With Brain Metastases: Updated Exploratory Analysis of the HER2CLIMB Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Oncol. 2023 Feb 1;9(2):197-205. PubMed PMID: 36454580
  • Brisson BK, Dekky B, Berger AC, Mauldin EA, Loebel C, Yen W, Stewart DC, Gillette D, Assenmacher CA, Cukierman E, Burdick JA, Borges VF, Volk SW. Tumor-restrictive type III collagen in the breast cancer microenvironment: prognostic and therapeutic implications. Res Sq. 2023 Apr 12. PubMed PMID: 37090621
  • Sella T, Zheng Y, Rosenberg SM, Ruddy KJ, Gelber SI, Tamimi RM, Peppercorn JM, Schapira L, Borges VF, Come SE, Carey LA, Winer EP, Partridge AH. Extended adjuvant endocrine therapy in a longitudinal cohort of young breast cancer survivors. NPJ Breast Cancer. 2023 Apr 25;9(1):31. PubMed PMID: 37185922

Practice Locations

UCHealth Diane O'Connor Thompson Breast Center - Anschutz
1635 Aurora Ct
3rd Floor
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-1030

CU Medicine Medical Oncology - Cherry Creek Medical Center
100 Cook Street
Suite 202
Denver, CO 80206
720-516-9413

Hospital Affiliation
  • University of Colorado Hospital
  • UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital

Center Affiliations

Specialty Information

Specialties
  • Medical Oncology, Board Certification (2009, 2019)
Conditions & Treatments
  • Cancers - Breast Cancer
  • Cancers
Clinical Interests
Young Women's Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer and Pregnancy

Volunteer Activities
Living Beyond Breast Cancer Advocacy Medical Advisory Board

Public Speaking
Yes
Breast Cancer topics